“Imagination as a Site of Struggle” brings together PhD researchers from different practice fields to explore practice-based research writing, departing from the conviction that raising awareness alone will not shift us and that facts alone will not change us. The workshop includes short presentations by PhD researchers on ways of writing that help us take the personal seriously and connect it to public commitments. The presentations stress how asking this of our readers, our writing, too, needs to go to vulnerable spaces—weaving together creative modes of critical knowledge production and engagement “to look at what’s plaguing us, using all the tools at our disposal,” as Ruha Benjamin points out.
The workshop includes contributions by Mark Cinkevich/Anna Engelhardt, George Simms/Mariana Marangoni, Tulio Rosa, Hill, Clareese Hill/Elly Clarke, Mariana Tilly, Katarzyna Lukasik, Mayte Gómez Molina, Mona Hedayati, Jessica Rowley, Yann Patrick Martins, Gabriela Aquije/Lilo Viehweg/Guillemette Legrand, Emily Woudenberg, Sasha Shestakova.
It is structured in two parallel panels and hosted by Helen V. Pritchard, Shaka McGlotten, Ines Kleesattel, and Lucie Kolb.
Imagination as a Site of Struggle
PhD workshop
Friday, Oct 18, 2024 / 09:30
HGK Seminar (D1.03 Nebenaula)
Free entrance
Suitable for all guests
In English
Workshop hosted by the MAKE/SENSE PhD program dedicated to intersectional writing on art, media, and technology with contributions by PhD researchers, using poetry, playwriting, science fiction, storytelling, grey literature, (technical) reports, briefs, sketchbooks, blog posts, manuals, and manifestos.